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Career Makeover for Scientists and Engineers in the 21^st Century

A 1-day career management seminar developed by the
IEEE-USA Career & Workforce Policy Committee

Date:	Saturday, March 25, 2006
Time:	8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location:	Astoria Room, University Place Conference Center at Portland State University, 310 SW Lincoln Street, Portland, OR 97201 http://www.uplace.pdx.edu/
Cost:	$25 unemployed; $50 members; $70 non-members by 20-Mar Includes continental breakfast, lunch and handout of slides
Registration:	https://www.ieee-or.org/apps/event_registration/register_contact.php?venue_id=8
Web:	http://www.ieee-or.org/pace/mpac06.pdf

IEEE-USA and IEEE Oregon care about your career development. This Career Makeover workshop provides practical and powerful strategies to maximize your career talents presented in a positive and entertaining way. This program will open your eyes and senses to see your career in a brand new light. You can not afford to miss this perception-changing career makeover program.

Every mega trend requires new frontiers, new visions, new tools, and new problem solving skills. The latest trend on the economic battlefield is globalization of commerce, science and technology development. Change is the only unchangeable force in nature. Engineers’ and scientists’ career markets have gone through the following paradigms:

I.    1950s-1960s: Secure engineers in corporate world
II.   1970s-1980s: Restless and trend-knowledgeable engineers
III. 1990s-2000: Project-based engineers
IV.   Future Trend: Globalization, Globally competitive engineers

Engineers, technologists and scientists have created incredible inventions using their scientific minds, logical and differential cognitive powers. Our scientific and engineering training equips engineers with the best tools for future career markets. However, it is time for us to upgrade our tool sets and sharpen our scientific minds to integrate diverse perspectives. The new globalization paradigm requires adopting new tool sets (communication skills and perceptions) to turn negative energy into positive breakthroughs. They include cognitive, emotional and behavioral upgrades and psychological makeover.

With the career paradigm shift, engineers and scientists have encountered severe conditions, such as high unemployment rate, multiple layoffs, outsourcing, declining benefits, burnout, declining health, age discrimination, and many more. Many fell through a silent crack due to shame, pride, or negative coping strategies. Engineers, technologists and scientists need to have a support system, a clear self-analysis, and understand their strengths and areas for future growth.

The ultimate goal of the Career Makeover is to empower engineers, technologists and scientists and their profession. It motivates engineers and scientists to work with management and human resources to innovate their own career and lifestyle in the 21st Century with empowered vision, confidence, and global leadership in technology and scientific frontiers.

Objectives and Outcomes

The goal of this seminar is to teach you how to help yourself manage/run your career in this era of globalization and selective hiring.

You will learn about:

Changes in job market, list of resulting challenges
Job market requirements, how you relate to market, your business model
Analyzing personal factors impacting adapting to new workplace
Understanding personal weaknesses and strengths that can affect your success
Starting a personal career plan, values statement, and branding
New methods of job search, and begin development of your elevator pitch
Understanding the interview process, what to expect, how to present yourself
How to help yourself using IEEE resources and help available

and be motivated to try new job search approaches

Course Outline

This 1-day seminar is divided into the following modules:

Welcome and Introductions (10-20 min) (8:30AM) (Perkins/Kostek)

Speaker and Attendee introductions

Overview of seminar

State of the Engineering Workplace (30 min) (Perkins)

Communicate “big picture”, paradigm shift, dynamics of job market

Understand change in market, no return to past, list of challenges

Requirements for Success in the new workplace (30 min) (Perkins)

Communicate what employers are expecting, what things are needed to succeed
Understand market requirements, how you relate to market, your business model (EXERCISE)

How you can Adapt (30 min) (Perkins)

Communicate attitudes and approaches needed to respond to new workplace
Understand personal factors impacting adapting to new workplace
What are your “critical variables”? (EXERCISE)

Career Makeover - Analyze Your Interpersonal Tool Sets – Dr Trudy Hu (75 min)

Paradigm shift: the past, current, and the future trends
Highlight and compare the traits of the old and new paradigms
Assess your working styles, personality, career goals (self assessment)
Integrate different paradigms and empower yourself and your profession

Lunch – (Noon, 60 min)

Developing a career strategy for change (60 min) (Hutchins)

Teach process of developing career plan, brand, self-presentation
Recasting your accomplishments (EXERCISE)
What is your “value added”
How to build “value”
Personal brands
Consulting/Alternative work models

Creative job search (60 min) (Humprhryes)

Teach “new” methods to find jobs and work, elevator pitch, networking
Elevator pitch (tell me about yourself) (EXERCISE)
Work vs Job
Informational Interviewing
Networking
Continuing Ed

Closing the deal (60 min) (Lahdhiri)

How to use your resume, how to handle selling yourself
Understand interview process, what to expect, how to present yourself

How IEEE can help (10 min) (Lahdhiri)

Link attendees into IEEE PACE network, communicate resources available for support
Understand IEEE resources and help available

Conclusion - (10 min) (Perkins)

Motivational wrap-up, encouragement, fill out evaluations

Speakers

Members of the IEEE-USA Career and Workforce Policy Committee (CWPC).

Paul Kostek is 2005 chair of the CWPC. Ed Perkins is chair of the CWPC subcommittee on Career Issues. Tarek Lahdhiri is a member of CWPC and the IEEE-USA Employment and Career Services committees and a frequent IEEE-USA MPAC speaker on Project Management. Dr. Trudy Hu is assisting the committee with development of the pilot seminar. Greg Hutchins is an entrepreneur, management consultant and career coach. Cay Humprhyes is a noted speaker inspiring audiences in workshops, seminars, and keynote speeches for nearly a decade.

Paul Kostek

Paul is a Systems Engineer with Boeing. Prior to Boeing he worked for a systems engineering/project management-consulting firm. He worked with companies in defining system architecture and design, system requirements, and software development standards. He received his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, in 1979. Paul is a Senior Member of the IEEE, was the 1999 President of IEEE-USA, and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors. He also served as President of the IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society in 2000 & 2001. Paul is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the International Council on Systems Engineering, SAE, and the Project Management Institute. He is also a director of the Washington Aerospace Alliance.

Edward Perkins

Ed has 30 years experience in the electronics industry, including hardware design automation, program and project management, mixed-signal test development automation, design services management, chip architecture development, software development, and real time embedded systems programming. He was a program manager in the Virtual Test Division of IMS in Beaverton, OR, where he was responsible for leading their mixed-signal R&D development efforts. Ed also spent 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation in the central engineering CAD department where he was responsible for development and deployment of CAE services and support to engineering groups worldwide. He has been an IEEE volunteer for 25+ years. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is Past Chair of the Oregon Section, Region 6 Membership co-chair, and a member of the IEEE-USA Career and Workforce Policy Committee. He has a BSEE and MSCS from WPI (Worcester, MA) and most recently an MS ECE specializing in VLSI design and test from Portland State University (Portland, OR).

Tarek Lahdhiri, Ph.D., P.E.

In 1998, Dr. Lahdhiri joined General Motors Corporation in Warren, Michigan, where he is currently holding the position of Lab Manager for the Vehicle Controls Systems-CAE in the GM Engineering Process and Math Strategy Division. He is currently in charge of the real-time synthesis, analysis, and simulation of vehicle control systems and subsystems. Dr. Lahdhiri is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan. He is currently Region 4 PACE Chair, the Region 4 coordinator for the IEEE-USA Employment & Career Service Committee, a member of the IEEE Educational Activities-Best Practices Planning Committee, and the IEEE Student Advisor at the University of Windsor.

Dr. Trudy Hu

Dr. Hu is a Licensed Psychologist and National Health Provider based in Beaverton, Oregon. She is an advocate for engineers and scientists. Engineers and scientists are industry and society builders and they deserve our highest respect. Dr. Hu has more than 12-year post-doctoral clinical experiences and more than 20-year experience in business and human resources. She has been the Editor-in-Chief for hi-tech organizations and column writer for journals and newspapers. Serving people is her passion. She loves to work with you and your organization to bring out the best in you. Her workshop features integration of multi-disciplines and multi-cultures. She provides valuable free information through her website, www.DrTrudy.com.

Greg Hutchins

Greg is a principal with Quality Plus Engineering (Q+E), a Portland Oregon enterprise solutions company. Q+E is a federally approved provider of lean, program, supply, and risk management advisory services as well as training. Greg has written many columns and articles on career management for IEEE EAB, PMI and ASQ.

Cay Humphryes

Cay is a noted speaker inspiring audiences in workshops, seminars, and keynote speeches for nearly a decade. Cay has earned her Master’s Degree in Communication while specializing in Training and Organizational Development. As a project specialist she has worked on a variety of projects for small to large organizations including IEEE, OGI, C-TRAN, ODOT, PCC, Barco, Auxium. She teaches and mentors for an Online University, is an author of several books, and has a delightful & motivating style of presentation. For more information, see www.innovatewithcay.com.

Directions

The Career Makeover seminar is being held at the University Place Conference Center at Portland State University, 310 SW Lincoln Street, Portland, Oregon 97201. Parking is available on site for $8 for the day. Web: http://www.uplace.pdx.edu/html/parkdirect.htm

· From the EAST – Portland International Airport (I-205, I-84)

Follow signs to Interstate 205 South; Continue on I-205 to I-84 West to Portland; Follow I-84 to I-5 South; Go across the bridge, take Beaverton I-405 split to City Center (left lanes); Take first exit, 4th Avenue; At the first light, take a right onto Lincoln; University Place is on the right-hand side

· From the EAST – Highway 26 (Mt. Hood, Ross Island Bridge)

Follow Highway 26 West to Portland; Take City Center Exit; Turn right on First Avenue; Turn left on Lincoln Street; Hotel is on the left-hand side

· From the NORTH – I-5 (Vancouver, Washington)

Follow I-5 South to Portland; Once in Portland, remain in the left lanes; Follow signs to I-405 North; Take the 4th Avenue Exit; Turn right at the first signal, Lincoln Street; Hotel is on the right-hand side

· From the WEST – Highway 26 (Beaverton)

Follow Highway 26 East to Portland; Take Market Street/City Center Exit; Turn right on Fifth Avenue; Turn left on Lincoln Street before freeway signs; Continue through signal; Hotel is on the right-hand side

· From the SOUTH – I-5 (Salem

Follow I-5 North; Take City Center Exit; Follow signs to I-405 North; Take 4th Avenue (immediate right); Turn right at signal onto Lincoln Street; Hotel is on the immediate right-hand side